Typical annoying moments for perfume addicts..

Here are some of mine:

The lady working in a Chanel boutique trying to assure me that the Les Exclusifs are 100% natural. Not that I care, but really.. I just didn't know what to say and decided to just let her be, apart from that she was nice.

When you realize some smell (of whatever) is present in your house while trying to sample perfumes. Could be a banana peel that's lying on the table, just having farted (sorry but it has happened) or a neighbour cooking spicy food

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I00% natural Chanel? That's hilarious!

People who spray a mist in the air overhead and 'walk through' . I sold some beautiful Italian perfume to a friend but her husband doesn't really like to smell any scent on her so this is what she does. Every time I see her she asks me if I can smell her perfume and of course I never do. What a waste.

(Her husband is an allergy doctor. The perfume I sold her is very light but he hates any fragrance, it seems, so it's a lesson in futility.)

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One word: shipping.

Living in Canada, I am regularly annoyed with the increasing costs of shipping perfume here. Ordering samples from Surrender to Chance now costs $13 in shipping, whereas it used to be $6 (I know this is not the fault of STC - USPS has upped its shipping costs). This is a hassle if I only want to try a few things. Also, I used to be able to buy a bottle of something on ebay and pay $10 shipping, now its at least double that. There are also many good online discounters that advertise free shipping within the U.S. but do not ship to Canada at all.

I would guess that the increased strictness in shipping perfumes compared with a few years ago (you now cannot ship any perfume outside the UK) has been an annoying thing for many BN'ers.

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For me, fragrances not readily available in the US and have to be purchased from abroad. (276)

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Only narrowly escaping an near-argument with SAs over fragrance concentrations like EDT, EDC, EDP.

Another "close call" in terms of a similar type of argument: trying to convince a certain fragrance store to stock up/replenish stocks/retail more backup bottles of several fragrances (neither too elitist, nor niche, nor too expensive, also not discontinued-limited edition fragrances, but in production- in my defense).

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Spraying a fragrance you really enjoy and 3 minutes later breaking out in hives because your allergic to something in it. Then being stuck with a full bottle that you love but can't use.

I can just imagine how awful that must be.

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Not finding discontinued editions of originals and others trying to get deeper into my pockets because of scarcity of frag: and obviously not finding specific wanted juice at a reasonable price for myself and reasonable profit for vendor...

"Thank GOD for the nose, for without it we would not be enjoying these beautiful created Scents" also Remember "Balance is everything and the key to appreciating "

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Reading on non perfume forums, that you should not smell your perfume on yourself at all! That is how you know its working for you Others should get a faint hint you are wearing it, but not you. You try to explain the principle of wearing a perfume you enjoy but it goes over their heads.

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A SA insisting that the 250ml splash bottle of FM l'Eau d'Hiver is in a different, lower concentration (EdC) than the 100ml bottle. She even called the store's headquarters and I could tell from the way she asked that she wasn't going to admit she was wrong, so I called FM and ofcourse, the concentrations are the same. In general, if a SA thinks he/she knows better and thinks you know nothing.. It's just not worth the discussion/fuss most of the time in my opinion.

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Those moments with SA being badly or romanticized informed are for me personally more awkward than annoying.
But when I have a specific fragrance in mind I want to wear that day and take it without considering something else and spray, twice, thrice not only the wrists, also the neck – only to find out I may picked up the right fragrance, but it's the wrong scent for this day. That's somehow saddening. And I pity myself and the perfume for not having a perfect date.

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Eagerly awaiting a bottle of fragrance that you have ordered, but when it finally arrives, the atomizer is suboptimal (happened to me with Creed VIW) or doesn't work at all (happened to me with Guerlain SDV).

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Originally Posted by TLS

Buying a bottle and finding out that you could have got it cheaper elsewhere.

Just happen to me yesterday for the first time, saw elsewhere $15USD cheaper after I had commited elsewhere afterwards was tempted to return it but I've done business with this dealer for a while and they've been good to me and didn't proceed to return it and instead took one for the team...Yikes it hurts me though Eventhough is not much.....

"Thank GOD for the nose, for without it we would not be enjoying these beautiful created Scents" also Remember "Balance is everything and the key to appreciating "